The Political Legacy of Lyndon LaRouche (w/ Matthew N Lyons)

This week, we’re sharing an interview with Matthew N Lyons of Three Way Fight blog about the political legacy of Lyndon LaRouche, cultic leftist turned fascist US political figure from the 1970’s through his death in 2019. For the hour, Matthew and I talk about the network of organizations and publications of the LaRouche movement, some of their approaches toward peeling adherents from the left, antisemitic conspiracy theories he innovated, methods his movement used to control followers and some of the ripples of LaRouche you can find today. We also speak briefly about the Three Way Fight book due out in the spring via Kersplebedeb and PM Press.

Our past interview with Matthew on Christian Nationalism(s): https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/20/matthew-lyons-on-christian-nationalisms/

Lyons articles on LaRouche (in addition to the chapter in Insurgence Supremacists on the movement):

• "The LaRouche Network's Russia Connection" (July 2015) -http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-larouche-networks-russia-connection.html
• "Meditations on a Dead Fascist" (March 2019) - http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2019/03/meditations-on-dead-fascist.html

Books critiquing LaRouche from an antifascist position:

• Dennis King’s Lydon Larouche and the New American Fascism: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307091850/http://lyndonlarouche.org/newamericanfascism.htm
• Kevin Coogan’s (as Hylozoic Hedgehog) Smiling Man From A Dead Planet: The Mystery of Lyndon LaRouche: https://archive.org/details/smiling-man-from-a-dead-planet-the-mystery-of-lyndon-la-rouche-by-hylozoic-hedge

Some current political figures appearing to relate to the legacy of LaRouche’s red-brown politics:

• Jackson Hinkle: https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Jackson_Hinkle
• showing how he publishes with EIR, a LaRouchite journal: https://twitter.com/MaupinAFA/status/1537791876106952705
• Caleb Maupin: https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Patriotic_Socialists

Related:

• A longer study of red-brown politics on LibCom: https://libcom.org/article/investigation-red-brown-alliances-third-positionism-russia-ukraine-syria-and-western-left
• Sophie From Mars on “left” conspiracy theories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZyIjBxxpTY
• Sophie speaking on I Don’t Speak German podcast about this topic: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/idontspeakgerman/IDSG_Ep120_Caleb_Maupin_and_the_Conspiracy_Left_with_Sophie_From_Mars.mp3
• brief write-up about the Rage Against The War Machine rally from IGD: https://itsgoingdown.org/dungeons-dugin-red-brown-alliance-interview/
• The Right Podcast talking about RATWM rally: https://audioboom.com/posts/8249669-rage-against-the-war-machine-explained
• Vice covering the idea of #MAGACommunism: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qk4b/what-the-hell-is-magacommunism

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Bursts O'Goodness (co-host, producer)
Ian (co-host)

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